On November 24th and 25th Munich will see a conference (organised by Gianluca Briguglia and Thomas Ricklin, and institutionally situated at Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance (LMU) and Historisches Kolleg München) with the title Politics and Vernacular: Political Thought and Linguistic Plurality between the Middle Ages and Humanism.

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